Delaware County, PA sets no countywide fence-height rule. Under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, each of the county's 49 boroughs and townships sets its own limits. For example, Upper Darby Township caps fences at six feet above grade, with front-yard fences in R-3 districts limited to four feet. Check your
Pennsylvania counties do not do land-use zoning. Under the PA Municipalities Planning Code (MPC, Act 247 of 1968, 53 P.S. §10101 et seq.), the power to regulate structures including fences rests with each borough, township, or city. MPC Section 601 states: "The governing body of each municipality, in accordance with the conditions and procedures set forth in this act, may enact, amend and repeal zoning ordinances." Section 603(b)(2) lets those ordinances regulate the "Size, height, bulk, location, erection, construction, repair, maintenance, alteration, razing, removal and use of structures." So fence height in Delaware County depends entirely on your municipality. As one representative example, Upper Darby Township provides at §550-39C(1): "The maximum height of fences on any lot, tract or parcel
Enforcement is municipal, not county. In Upper Darby, §550-39K provides: "Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 for each offense." Other Delaware
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